From owner-cvs-all Sun May 13 23:15:51 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B74F37B42C; Sun, 13 May 2001 23:15:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DBF6E6ACBC; Mon, 14 May 2001 15:45:41 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:45:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: HEADS UP: DEVFS options have changed (was : cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERIC src/sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c) Message-ID: <20010514154541.B17428@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010514073635.M86168@wantadilla.lemis.com> <16329.989820276@critter> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <16329.989820276@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:04:36AM +0200 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 14 May 2001 at 8:04:36 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20010514073635.M86168@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >> On Sunday, 13 May 2001 at 13:52:41 -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> phk 2001/05/13 13:52:41 PDT >>> >>> Modified files: >>> sys/conf files options >>> sys/alpha/conf GENERIC >>> sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES >>> sys/ia64/conf GENERIC >>> sys/pc98/conf GENERIC >>> sys/fs/devfs devfs_devs.c devfs_vfsops.c devfs_vnops.c >>> Log: >>> Convert DEVFS from an "opt-in" to an "opt-out" option. >> >> I don't see a HEADS UP. > > The fact that DEVFS became the GENERIC default quite some time ago > and the fact that our ultimate goal is to make DEVFS standard in 5.0 > ought to be more than than enough HEADS UP for anybody paying > attention. I disagree. Any change in the config options is worthy of specific reminder. Most people don't even read cvs logs, because they're not developers, but this incompatibility will bite them. > People not paying attention deserve what they get of course. This is not a useful attitude. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message